Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.

Take the shortest route. The one that nature planned - to speak and act in the healthiest way. Do that, and be free of pain and stress, free of all calculations and pretension.

The true worth of a man is to be measured by the objects he pursues.

The intelligence of the universe is social.

But this is altogether a mark of the most common sort of men, for it is in your power whenever you choose to retire into yourself.

What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee.

So you know how things stand. Now forget what they think of you. Be satisfied if you can live the rest of your life, however short, as your nature demands. Focus on that, and don't let anything distract you. You've wandered all over and finally realized that you never found what you were after: how to live. Not in syllogisms, not in money, or fame, or self-indulgence. Nowhere.